Word: cornelia
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Alonso is survived by his wife, Cornelia O'Conner, two children, and a grandchild...
...Cornelia A. Kelley-LaCambria, an assistant headmaster at Boston Latin, said, "We are indeed very proud. When Rebecca was a student here, she distinguished herself in many areas, and this award continues to recognize her many talents...
While a solicitor in Charleston, Condon began his program of prosecuting women whose babies tested positive for cocaine. In some cases he had women taken from hospital rooms, handcuffed and jailed. The state supreme court ruling came in the case of Cornelia Whitner, who pleaded guilty to child neglect in 1992 when her baby was born with traces of cocaine in his system. She was sentenced to 8 years in jail, but lower courts overturned the decision on grounds that a fetus was not a person. The state supreme court restored the conviction. (Whitner's attorneys plan to appeal...
...from now. Yet back in 1992 the U.S., along with most other countries, had signed a treaty committing industrial nations to such a rollback by the year 2000--a point not lost on delegates attending a pre-Kyoto planning conference last week in Bonn. "Disappointing and insufficient," is how Cornelia Quennet-Thielen, head of the German delegation, characterized Clinton's proposals. And the European Union issued a statement saying in part, "The U.S. proposal is for an even lower target than that proposed by Japan, which we already considered inadequate to tackle the problem of climate change...
...produced some extraordinarily intense images--funny, monstrous and laden with anxiety, rendered with a kind of desperate verve. "I find I can paint pretty young girls," he remarked, "yet when it is finished I always find they are not there, only their mothers"--more likely his own mother Cornelia, that coarse dockland sibyl...